mike@BRL.ARPA (Mike Muuss) (12/06/86)
You probably all think that I have dropped off the face of the earth. Very nearly right. Life for me these past few months has redefined the term "frantic"; a workaholic's dream, perhaps, but overall a bit much. Our major preocupations have been the preparation of the first BRL CAD Distribution, a task which has required enormous expenditures of time, and the recent arrival of our Cray X-MP/48. Not only was it necessary to make the front-end preparations for the Cray, but we had to get all the CAD software ready for use on the Cray. (Alas, the Cray won't be running UNIX until January; watch for a jubilant announcement in this space early in 1987). What this means for you, the subscriber, is that mail to the -Requests list has been getting weighed, but not answered. Fortunately, the list runs fairly well on auto-pilot. (In the words of W. H. Huggins, "It's amazing what you can do with a Shell script and a few editor commands"). Two big exceptions to this were (a) converting the Gould that transmits the list to "4.3 BSD", and (b) the recent re-naming of the USENET news groups. Probably fortunately, (b) prevented the backlog from (a) from being astronomical. Dec 5 20:08:22 brl-sem vmunix: Volunteer Detected on Long-Range Scanners! Fortunately for all of us, Bob Reschly <Reschly@BRL.ARPA> has volunteered to slog through the current backlog, and to hunt down the obstructions in the USENET news relay. If you have a request pending, relax, and Bob will take care of things. If you are still having problems by the end of next week, please re-send your request. Best, -Mike